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20 December – 2023 Democratic Republic of the Congo general election: Voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo elect the President, members of the National Assembly, provincial assemblies, and commune councils. 26 December – Twenty-two people are killed by floods in Kasaï-Central. Several houses and structures are damaged, with a ...
The 2023 Goma massacre occurred on August 27, 2023, when a protest erupted in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, against the presence of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) forces across the country. MONUSCO was accused of failing to prevent the violence by militant groups ...
Attacks were carried out by various armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2021 and 2022. The attacks have killed 629 and injured 321 (not including rebel casualties). At least 82 perpetrators were also killed and one injured in these attacks.
On January 19, 2023, the United Nations investigators discovered the bodies of forty-two civilians in the village of Nyamamba, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and seven bodies in the village of Mbogi, in the same province.
Uganda and the DR Congo had greatly improved their relations, cooperating against a common enemy, the Allied Democratic Forces, [12] during Operation Shujaa. [35] In early 2022, a growing number of M23 combatants began leaving their camps and move back to the DR Congo; [ 1 ] the rebel movement launched more attacks in February 2022, but these ...
On the evening of 22 January 2023, the Allied Democratic Forces killed between 17 and 24 people in Makugwe, a village near Beni, North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] The massacre occurred at a bar; the insurgents also looted and set fire to several homes and shops, and kidnapped several people. [ 1 ]
Between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwanda government forces are deployed in neighboring eastern Congo, operating alongside the M23 rebel group which has been making major advances, U.N. experts said in a ...
In the 19th century, Leopold II, tried to persuade the governance to colonize certain areas of Africa. Under the pretext of humanitarian purposes, he managed to legally own the Kongo Kingdom. The new name given to the colonized Kongo Kingdom was Congo Free State [1] Hema massacre of 1911: 4 December 1911 200+ By Lendu people against Hema people [2]